Love

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 8th of July, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in 1 Corinthians 13, and it is the chapter on love. I am going to read the whole chapter to you and I would like you to be very careful to listen to every single word because this is Jesus in print. You see 1 John 4:8 says:

"He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." 

I was at a prayer meeting, a mens' prayer meeting early in the morning and the one gentleman shared a testimony. He said, "I have got a man staying at our place. He is now a committed Christian, he has given his life to Jesus, he's been baptised and he gets up every morning at 4 o'clock and prays with some of his friends, and he prays again at 8pm at night. He said he used to be a Muslim and has changed. What is the reason? He says, "love". He has never known or experienced love like he has experienced among Christians. That is out of his mouth." I want to tell you that Muslims need Jesus. Listen to this beautiful chapter:

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known."

And now listen to this, verse 13:

"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day and go and tell somebody that God loves them.
Goodbye.